Reach out and touch Wyrick's magic in Atlantic City

11:40 PM,
Jan. 31, 2013

Written by

David J. Spatz | For the Courier-Post

As a headline magician in Las Vegas for close to 20 years, Steve Wyrick has grown comfortable working in big theaters with spacious stages and a buffer of 10 to 20 feet between the artist and the audience.

But Wyrick is facing an unusual challenge during the extended engagement of his "Breathtaking Magic" show at the Golden Nugget. The venue , known as The Showroom, seats around 500, or about half the size of the rooms in which he usually works.

It's so intimate that a front row seat for Wyrick's show puts audience members about as close to the action as possible without actually being part of the ...